The enabling environment for menstrual health and hygiene: case study - Kenya
Menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) is essential to the well-being and empowerment of women and adolescent girls.
Menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) is essential to the well-being and empowerment of women and adolescent girls.
Adolescent girls face a range of challenges that may compromise their chances of completing school or their sexual and reproductive health.
Impact evaluations focused on school absenteeism commonly use school records of untested quality or expensive spot-check data.
The radio script is a departure from the usual kind of radio lessons in the life-skills programme. Here in a panel discussion, a team of people, including four young people and a medical expert, are brought together to discuss the various issues that form the themes of this material.
Poor menstrual hygiene management (MHM) among schoolgirls in low income countries affects girls' dignity, self-esteem, and schooling. Hygienic, effective, and sustainable menstrual products are required.
Violence against women and girls is an unacceptable violation of basic human rights. It also is so widespread that ending it must be a global public health priority. An estimated one in three women is beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused by an intimate partner during her lifetime.
Background: Keeping girls in school offers them protection against early marriage, teen pregnancy, and sexual harms, and enhances social and economic equity. Studies report menstruation exacerbates school-drop out and poor attendance, although evidence is sparse.
The problem of this study was to investigate the teaching of the integrated topics on drug abuse in the secondary school curriculum as a strategy to wipe out the problem of drug abuse among students in Machakos District, Kenya.
Background. The onset of menstruation is a landmark event in the life of a young woman. Yet the complications and challenges that can accompany such an event have been understudied, specifically in resource-poor settings.
La problématique des enfants de la rue face aux drogues et au VIH/sida est indissociable du contexte dans lequel ces deux questions se développent ; la première partie du document y est consacrée.